Colette Mattos

• Attachment-focused work
• Relationship and intimacy
• ACT CBT DBT EFT methods

About Colette

Colette Mattos works with relationship and self-related concerns, helping people understand patterns that affect how they connect with others and themselves. She uses an attachment-focused approach and has four years' experience. Colette is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

She supports people dealing with relationship problems, issues with intimacy, communication difficulties, and the impact of past experiences on current connections. She also helps where anxiety, depression or low self-esteem are linked to relationships. Colette works with individuals and with couples to look at how feelings and behaviour repeat over time.

Colette explains patterns that often sit under behaviour and emotions. She helps people notice how early attachment experiences influence adult relationships. Sessions look at what happens in the moment between people and how to try different responses outside the room.

Her approach draws on several methods, including acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioural ideas, dialectical behaviour techniques and emotionally focused work. She uses these to offer practical ways of managing difficult feelings and improving communication. The focus is on small, clear steps that fit with a person’s life.

People come to her for many concerns beyond couple work, including parenting strain, body image, caregiver stress, grief around separation, guilt and shame, loneliness and life purpose. Colette aims to help people gain clarity and make changes that feel manageable and meaningful.

How Colette uses therapeutic approaches in online work

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings and pick values-based actions despite them; it is often used when people want clearer direction around relationships or life purpose. Client-centred therapy focuses on careful listening and reflecting so a person can find their own solutions; this approach is helpful for building self-esteem and processing difficult feelings.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will talk with the client about their goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try. This decision is made together and can change as practical needs and aims evolve.

Please confirm the available session formats before booking as the biography does not specify them. Online sessions can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy day, reduce travel time and offer shorter check-ins when needed. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt techniques such as ACT and client-centred listening to work in remote appointments, helping people focus on clearer communication, emotion regulation and manageable steps for change.

Topics Colette lists

• Relationship issues
• Family conflicts
• Parenting issues
• Self-esteem
• Depression
• Stress and anxiety
• LGBT
• Trauma and abuse
• Intimacy-related issues
• Eating disorders
• Career difficulties
• Coping with life changes
• Attachment issues
• Body image
• Caregiver issues and stress
• Communication problems
• Control issues
• Divorce and separation
• Forgiveness
• Guilt and shame
• Isolation and loneliness
• Life purpose
• Mood disorders
• Self-love
• Women's issues

Ways of working

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Client-Centred Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
• Existential Therapy
• Gottman Method
• Hypnotherapy
• Imago Relationship Therapy
• Mindfulness Therapy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Narrative Therapy
• Psychodynamic Therapy
• Solution-Focused Therapy
• Somatic Therapy
• Internal Family Systems

Questions about Colette

Does she work with anxiety and depression?

Yes. She supports people whose anxiety or depression is linked to relationship and self-esteem issues.

What kind of counselling does she offer?

She uses an attachment-focused approach alongside acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioural techniques, dialectical behaviour methods and emotionally focused ideas.

How much experience does she have?

She has four years' experience as a counsellor.

Is she registered with a professional body?

She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and works in the United Kingdom.

Can I have sessions in another language?

Sessions are offered in English.

Does she see international clients?

She does not accept international clients at this time.

What formats are available for sessions?

Please confirm current session options before booking as formats are not specified in the biography.

How much do sessions cost and how do payments work?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.